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quarter-gunner Naut.
An officer subordinate to the gunner, whom he assists in all departments of his work (cf. quots. 1769, 1846).
1627Capt. Smith Sea-man's Gram. viii. 35 The Master Gunner hath charge of the ordnance..the rest of the Gunners, or quarter Gunners to receive their charge from him. 1702Royal Declar. 1 June in Lond. Gaz. No. 3815/2 The Trumpeter, Quarter Gunners, Carpenters Crew [etc.]. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v., The number of quarter-gunners in any ship is always in proportion to the number of her artillery, one quarter-gunner being allowed to every four cannon. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 476 One of his Majesty's frigates, on board of which her husband served in the quality of a quarter-gunner. 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 242 Quarter-Gunner, in a ship of war, an able seaman, generally one of the gunner's crew, appointed to act as his assistant under the gunner's mates. |